¡Hola! .. we're in san isidro again, first time accessing the world in about two weeks!! homestays are going great.. this past week me and lissie started painting the school and the roof construction is underway!! o yeaaaah .. we finished the whole outside of the school and one wall on the inside and are going to start with the murals after this weekend. its gorgeous .. i love the color!! which is awesome because my limbs are almost the exact same shade...

hey everyone!! okay so had the last week in the homestay.. it was soooooooo good to be home!! and awesome that its actually home now  .. we just taught and hung out and did a lot of stuff in the community. Ahh i learned how to make tortillas from scratch!! like grinding the maiz and all .. the president of our community's wife is awesome and loves me and lissie so she invited us over to her house and we learned how to do the tortillas ( even though hers ...

hey everyone, sorry i didn't update before but the website wasnt working when we first got back from Limon and i tried like 5 times and it just didnt wanta work so you had to wait! .. that and writing right after we got back wasn't even something i wanted to do, you see Limon was not all that its cracked up to be. and that was an interesting choice of a discriptive word because "cracked up" is definitely one way to describe it. I'll start with everything go...

Limon for carnival!!!!!!!!!!!! whoooaaaa.. we leave tomorrow for a seven hour bus ride! i can't wait! also its one of my favorite girls in the world, Alex's, birthday!!! give her a big happy birthday on her journal too (just search costa rica and its "Alex's Adventure" or something close to that... but yeah all is going well still. i might not be able to get online/call for awhile after this weekend but its all ok, everything is going good.&...

HOLA!!! so yeah this thursday ill have been for a month this thursday!!! thats crazy! everything is going really well.. the beginning of this past week was really rough and i was definitly feeling the "i want to go home"'s but its gotten a lot better.  communication has improved so much and i actaully talk to my family alot now.  My mom is awesome and so are my brothers (shes wearing the bracelet i bought her all the time now!) . My o...